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Homes Featuring Traditional Tea Rooms × Downsizing
Homes Featuring Traditional Tea Rooms
A home with a tea room provides a quiet space for mindfulness, connecting with nature and seasons through the art of tea. Incorporating tatami mats, shoji screens, alcoves (tokonoma), and low entrances (nijiriguchi) creates quiet elegance through simple materials. Sightlines to gardens and stepping-stone paths (roji) elevate the journey to the tea room as much as the ceremony itself. Modern designs can adapt tea rooms into versatile Japanese-style retreat spaces. We introduce tea-ceremony homes that value quiet moments and seasonal appreciation.
Downsized House
A home through downsizing is a concept of reviewing unused spaces or excessive sizes and trimming the house to a size that suits current living. Triggered by changes in family structure or children becoming independent, organizing the number of rooms and floor space allows you to suppress the burden of cleaning and maintenance while making necessary places richer. By reviewing the relationship with the garden, light, and wind, and giving leeway to the remaining space, an open life is born even if it becomes compact. It is also attractive to be able to reselect what is necessary for future life while utilizing the value of existing housing. This introduces a downsizing home that adjusts the size of the home to match your lifestyle and enjoys blank spaces.
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